Discussion - Evidence

Evidence photography, in the literal sense, would be to record a crime/accident scene as accurately as possible so that such evidence can be used in a court of law to assist a judge or jury in understanding what happened at the time of the incident. This could be interpreted into this topic by made up crime scenes and purposely put together sets that represented an assaut or accident. Props that are often used in crime scenes such as guns, knives and gloves could all be companions in an evidence shoot. 

However, I decided that I didn't want to approach this topic with the obvious meaning of the word, because it didn't attract me in the beginning until I actually done some research into this starting point, and realised that I could photograph absolutely anything as long as it portrayed the evidence of something. My types of ideas for this are evidence of summer, winter, spring, autumn or weather in general. Evidence of food and drink, colour, shadow, pattern, depth and any of the other formal elements. Evidence of love, friendship, partnership and life. Evidence of flowers, nature and natural habitat. It's clear that anything could be the evidence of something, and I will just have to focus my photographs specifially on putting this kind of idea across. 

This starting point is such an open topic that it will be a challenge to conclude my ideas into one, but the further I evolve into this project I intend to finalise my decision on at least something around the same area. 

Some pictures that represent the evidence of something have been inserted  below to convey how they are all evidence of something.

Evidence of trainers, black and white, fashion.

Evidence of fashion, black and white, pattern.

A photographer that I looked at in my Research Log and Photographer Research called Barry Underwood captures light in an intriguing and abstract kind of way. He would be a photographer I'd look at when also photographing light because his pictures are great for evidence. An example would be the one below, which is a clear example of 'evidence of light'.

Joel Robinson is also another photographer that creates surreal pieces which is something that interests me for the future of this project. I like the way his images are interesting and filled with detail. He does a lot of book photography which conveys evidence of knowledge and reading. He will be someone that will inspire a shoot of mine at some point in this project. An example of his work is below.

After looking at how photographers perhaps approached this type of topic it gives me ideas on how I could approach this type of topic, and it excites me because I have no idea where I'll be going with this starting point, all I know is that I'll hopefully be accumalating successful photographs along the way. 

For my starting point of this topic I looked at evidence of weather as I liked this starting point, however knew that I'd be able to include it somewhere in evidence along with taking other photographs aswell.  

I want to look at metaphorical examples of weather through colours representing certain seasons for example, yellow and high saturated pictures could represent summer whilst unsaturated and black and white photographs could represent winter. As I take my photographs, I will see where they can lead to as I am sure my project will develop into something new and different after each shoot.